2006-09-01 11:55:57 · 22 answers · asked by Rachel 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
No, i went on a 6 month smoking spree every day, and was able to stop cold turkey and never want it again.
2006-09-01 12:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by lignebur72 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by addictive? I'll let you in on a little secret, drugs are not addictive. By that, I mean that drug users don't experience physiological withdrawel like alcoholics do. The most a heroin addict, for example, will experience is mild, flu-like symptoms for less than a week. This fact is virtually unknown outside the drug rehab community. Good luck getting an honest discussion on it too.
The real problem with drugs is that they progressively (and probably irreversibly) change your personality in such a way that you want to do drugs. Is that addiction? I'm not so sure. A drug addict CHOOSES to do the drugs. It's not like there is removal of choice through pain or need.
Marijuana (also crack, heroin and crystal meth) is like this. There is no withdrawel. But, the drug changes the person into a drugged out scumbag. In other words, it changes a normal person, perhaps irrevocably, into the type of person that uses drugs. This is a much harder thing to deal with than addiction as the person makes a choice to use the drug. Addiction can be handled with detox. Personal choice cannot.
And that's a problem because drugs like marijuana damage a person severely. I worked community mental health for many years and most of those people did not have mental illnesses until they started using drugs. The most commonly used drug was marijuana.
2006-09-01 19:18:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I started smoking pot in the 70's because that is what all the "cool" kids were doing and I was so UNCOOL that I fell to peer pressure. I made my chooses then and live with them now. I only really feel normal after I smoke. I don't have an appetite until I smoke. I can't blame that one on pot because I never ever really felt hungry before. It's an eating disorder I've had most of my life. I do believe in medical marijuana,for it has been proved to have health benefits.It is prescribed all the time for people under going chemotherapy treatment to simulate their appetite.
I would love to say that it is not addictive but after 30 yrs I guess it is. I don't have physical with drawls like with other drugs however I know that it is an mental addiction.Any thing you smoke for 30 years,yeah, I'm addicted
Up date on this:Physical Withdraw ls: After a week with no smoke I found that I had violent headaches and major crankiness.
Thank goodness that's over with
2006-09-01 19:17:40 · answer #3 · answered by autumnbrookblue 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know it is and there is a lot of science to support that it contains THC which is 10,000 x more potent Molecule for molecule in its ability to produce mild intoxication and takes 4 months to be excreted out of the body as compared to hours for alcohol to be excreted from the body it also damages the neuro receptors by widening the gaps between nerve endings and it also impairs memory , judgement emotion, behavior with damage to the septal ,the hippocamus ,andthe amygdala areas that control the above areas so it definately is not only addictive but damaging as well hope this settles the issue Gorbalizer
2006-09-01 19:44:31 · answer #4 · answered by gorbalizer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything can be addictive if it used to cope with daily life or stressful situations. I have heard of people addicted to Ice Cubes. Marijuana has never been known to be physically addictive however, if you create an emotional attachment to anything you could become addicted to anything mentally
2006-09-01 19:00:20 · answer #5 · answered by David P 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I never found it addictive. I used to smoke it quite a bit, but it wasn't very hard to give up. If someone is it addicted to it, it's all mental (not physical).. But you can become psychologically addicted to almost anything.
Panacea, I'm sorry, but you are totally wrong. Drug addicts do go through a physical withdrawl, don't even try to tell me they don't, I have lived through it. I used to do crystal meth and believe me, when you stop doing that you feel like garbage, it has nothing to do with the mental addiction, I got sick as hell, this "mild flu symptom" crap is pure baloney. Coming down off meth is probably the sickest I have ever felt, and one of the PHYSICALLY (and emotionally) painful experiences of my life. I don't know where you got your facts from, but I can tell you from experience they are dead wrong.
2006-09-01 19:02:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not in the least...Could lead to more potent narcotics, but the 400 chemicals that are know in marijuana is not addictive....
2006-09-01 19:01:35 · answer #7 · answered by virginiamayoaunt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is. Not physically addictive like alcohol, speed, or heroin. It's mentally addictive like any habit.
2006-09-01 19:00:30 · answer #8 · answered by Dan W 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.....Too many use it as for healing instead of just to get a good high.
2006-09-01 19:03:56 · answer #9 · answered by daugtherofmerlin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your addicted than yes. If your not than no.
2006-09-01 19:03:03 · answer #10 · answered by 2strongfor2long 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋